Cardboard grannies are part of the elderly left behind by the yet-to-improve retirement and ageing security systems, as well as by an economy with highly limited re-employment for senior citizens, who are forced to fend for themselves.
Cardboard picking is not considered a job or a part of the formal recycling economy in Hong Kong, which means the grannies have little official protection.
(Photo: SCMP’s Dickson Lee)
